Gaming for Dollars Update: Week 2

Today's a fresh new day, and it's time to earn some dollars.  Last week I talked about the different apps I was using for this, and today I'm updating which have been promising, effective, and which have failed to meet expectations.

This time, I'm just gonna list each one and break them down, in order of optimism.

Testerup

I'm a little nervous about this one because under the "cash out" button it has a clause that says you have to have at least 70$ to cash out.  That's kinda a lot to get and can take time.  That being said, the earnings I've accumulated has been faster on this app than any of the others.  I hit 8 dollars real quick playing 4 or 5 games.  I think I can hit 70 pretty fast, and will post updates and pictures as soon as that happens and I'm paid out.  

But overall this is more of my style of app.  For some reason it has a lower score than the other on the playstore (4.2), but unlike most of the other apps, you get paid for achievements, not time played, which is much, much better.  Think it as commision job versus an hourly job.  IF you're good at something, you don't wanna get paid scale.   With the achievement system, you can push as hard as you want, and your money is only capped by your ambitions. 

Mistplay 

Well, I cashed out 10$ from them a couple days ago, still waiting on that paypal, should come today I believe (was sunday yesterday).  STILL, it's not instant like my survey apps (Survey Junkie and Top Surveys) which I cashed out today 5$ each on both and received that money in a matter of minutes.  SO that kinda sucks.  

The other thing that is grossly disappointing is there earning system.  After much usage I realized it's a "time played" system, not based off anything you actually do in the game. Literally, you can just load the game up in mistplay, and then spend an hour staring out of a window and earn just as much as you would if you were playing.  This is moronic in my opinion.  

One thing it sorta has going still though, is the tournaments.  I entered a Mech one, played for an hour or two, and I'm like, 12th place. This is a great concept.

Again though, this tournament pays out just OK for the top 3.  A few hundred measly points (it takes 3700 points for 10$ paypal).  You would think first place would pay a few thousand, at least 5 bucks worth?  Like common bro.  These sites are not sharing their ad revenue with players, and it's very frustrating (just like sports betting sites, like Fanduel, which will offer you a free contest for 40 bucks (with 60,000 players) after you've spent a small fortune on the site.

So I've soured slightly on the app, but I'm still exploring.  Perhaps I just haven't mastered its nuances. 

JustPlay

Ooph.  900,000 points for 5$.  I'm at 735,000.  Almost there, and honestly, I've only run this on the tablet, mostly idle games I barely have to pay attention to, and just like Mistplay you can earn without doing anything, although JustPlay is a hybrid system of earning-per-time spent, as well as earning for achievements, which get much better as you progress, and to be fair, I'm still at early stages.  Some stages pay out 10-20$ or even 40-100$ but you gotta hit really hard benchmarks, like high levels that are just mostly unachievable as a free player, in the time-frame they give you. 

Smart players will invest in an initial deposit to get going and hit those benchmarks.  I'm not in a position yet to do that, but I plan on using all money from Google Surveys (super easy, recommended) for Playstore in-game purchases.  

What's cool, is almost all the games will give you "Cash back" (in the form of points of course) for in-game buys, so you get a discount more or less, and now you can hit the hard achievements and make double digit dollars.  (I will be testing this theory very soon).

MODE

I got annoyed with this one and deleted it.  It had some interesting things on it, like paying you while you charge your phone (spams adds on your lock screen) and paying you to listen to music or read articles (not enough to matter imo).  

For gaming?  I couldn't find any.  The games tab was empty.  Overall the app is too demanding for control of everything, but I may revisit it in the future and give it more focus.  

EUREKA

This is one of my survey apps I like, they pay fast.  They also have a tab "offers" where they allow for gaming.  Download one of the games, install, (always launch it from the app itself and not the homescreen, just to be sure you get credit).

The achievement system isn't bad, can make some decent cash, but you gotta be careful, don't download a game you've already had and deleted (I did this with Raid Shadow Legends) and at some point I stopped getting credit.  Not sure if that was the issue, but somehow it lost connection to the game and all my progress was for nothing).  

Get a few fresh games (a dozen if you are a CHAD) and make sure each one gives you a "installed' update on the checklist (little green checkmark, and next achievement will be open).  Otherwise, you are grinding for nothing.  

Bestplay

Junk.  I somehow have 600k "game coins" which seem to have zero purpose.  Not sure what I'm supposed to do with them, and frankly, the app's U.I looks terrible.  Not a fan.  

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That's it for this week's update, will post more updates soon.  I hope this information is useful to someone.